Game Proposition: Sonic Unleashed FIXED

It appears that the Sonic Team has had many troubles for their recent Sonic games. Some will argue that Colors and Generations were good. Others will disagree or agree only in part. Some people want games to be like the first 3. Sega attempted that with Sonic 4 but still disappointed fans. There isn't much that can be done. However, what I think would be a good idea was something I was talking about with a friend recently. We discussed how we like Sonic Unleashed's Daytime levels. The only thing that made that game horrible was the story and dreaded nighttime levels (especially when you take into account the number and length of each level).

The thing is, me and my friend played two different versions of the game. He had the Xbox 360 version and I played the Wii one. We still both admitted that the Sonic levels were great and if that was the entire game, that would have been great. It can be argued that the Sonic Team recognized this and tat is why they made Sonic Colors. The problem, though, is that they still added something to that. I didn't really care for the powers, even though that meant they could make ineresting designs for the levels. What I want is for Sega to rerelease Sonic Unleashed in a fixed format.

This is all Sega has to do:

Eliminate the "Werehog" levels

Take away the need of travelling or exploring the "world" (or make it optional);

Get rid of the story. The first games didn't really have a story but were great. You are just placing Sonic in "real world" settings and he's running after Dr. Robotnik like always.

By getting rid of the storyline, you can make optional bonus stages for the Chaos Emeralds if wanted, but because of the nature of the game, Super Sonic is not needed either.

Release it digitally via Steam, PSN store, XBLA, WiiWare, or Wii U's eShop for like $15. That's a better deal than what they charged for Sonic 4 and would be more worth it.

Because a lot of unnecessary data was eliminated, you can add in Sonic Stages that the Wii did not have.

Maybe release both versions of the levels. Have the HD console stages as the main package with the Wii/PS2 stages as bonus content.

Considering that Sega should have all of this data anyways, it should not be too difficult or costly to pull this off. Otherwise, Wii owners probably have it the best since they can possibly find a way to avoid having to play through the story and Night levels (I haven't tested the theory, but I think it would work). Hopefully Sega will take notice and do this. That was a case where added content is what destroyed a good game, but now they can fix it.